Namibia Pioneers Africa’s First Green Hydrogen Facility

Namibia Pioneers Africa’s First Green Hydrogen Facility

Namibia has inaugurated Africa’s first fully integrated green hydrogen facility. The facility combines solar power generation, hydrogen production and energy storage in a single ecosystem to demonstrate industrial scale clean energy and support the continent’s energy transmission. The brainchild of Belgium-registered diversified shipping group CMB.TECH, the plant in Namibia’s Walvis Bay brings...

SOEC green hydrogen test facility breaks ground at BASF site

SOEC green hydrogen test facility breaks ground at BASF site

August 25, 2026 | By Mary Bailey Industrial Park Lausitz (Schwarzheide, Germany) and Sunfire SE (Dresden, Germany) officially broke ground on a green hydrogen test facility in the presence of representatives from government, business, and industry. At the BASF site, Sunfire will validate its latest and most powerful SOEC product generation in an industrial...

Romanian Senate backs €120/MWh fines for missing 42% green hydrogen targets

Romanian Senate backs €120/MWh fines for missing 42% green hydrogen targets

Romanian industrial companies could face fines equivalent to about €120 for every megawatt-hour by which they fall short of a 42% green hydrogen target from 2030, under new legislation backed by the country’s Senate.The bill implementing industrial mandates under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) will require industrial hydrogen consumers to ensure that at...

Rewire. #237 — Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026 • Buttondown

Rewire. #237 — Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026 • Buttondown

Tuesday   25 Aug 2026 · Nº 237 Signal Europe is doubling down on molecule and long-duration storage infrastructure—a 15-year Norway–Germany gas contract, a completed 100 MW electrolyser plant, and a 2.1 GWh vanadium flow battery—while the US retreats, redirecting a $500m grant from green steel back to coal-based blast furnaces. The divergence is stark: as CertifHy operationalizes...

Woodside reviews Texas blue ammonia plant amid ‘different global environment’ | Ammonia

Woodside reviews Texas blue ammonia plant amid ‘different global environment’ | Ammonia

Australian energy firm Woodside has launched a strategic review of its recently acquired Texas ammonia plant, which is due to begin blue hydrogen-based production next year, while abandoning plans to spend $5bn on new energy projects by 2030.CEO Elizabeth Westcott told the company’s Q2 earnings call that “significant changes in the global environment” had changed the...

Rising Yields and a Vanished Loan Guarantee Test the Hydrogen Thesis

Rising Yields and a Vanished Loan Guarantee Test the Hydrogen Thesis

The hydrogen economy was always sold as a technology story. Increasingly, it is an interest-rate story — and Plug Power is where that tension is most visible.The fuel-cell developer's shares were changing hands around €1.86 to €1.89 on Tuesday, a decline of roughly 2.4 to 4 percent depending on the pricing reference, as the yield on ten-year US Treasuries crept back toward its own 52-week...

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